"When children are acquiring the symbolic system for representing numbers and learning about math in school, they're tapping into this primitive number sense," said Elizabeth Brannon, Ph.D., a ...

It turns out that parents are right to nag: To succeed in school, kids should do their homework. Duke University researchers have reviewed more than 60 research studies on homework between 1987 and ...

A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes -- from platypuses to puffballs -- has been released.A collaborative effort among ...

A study that examined 30 years of standardized test data from the very highest-scoring seventh-graders has found that performance differences between boys and girls have narrowed considerably, but ...

A 10-cent pill doesn't kill pain as well as a $2.50 pill, even when they are identical placebos, according to a provocative study by Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University. "Physicians ...

A study of power plants in five states has found that metals and other toxic materials are able to leach out of the unlined pits in which coal ash is currently stored. These materials have been found ...

People whose New Year resolutions include losing weight, starting an exercise regime or otherwise changing their behavior should look outward -- - to their environment -- - instead of relying simply ...

The discovery of the "exercise hormone" irisin three years ago and more than 170 related papers about it since have been called into question by recent research showing they were based on flawed ...

Listen to your heartbeat with a stethoscope and you’ll hear a rhythmic lub-dub, lub-dub that repeats roughly 60 to 100 times a minute, 100,000 times a day. But the normal rhythm of a healthy heart isn ...

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When Diana White turns on her computer every morning, she gets a pop-up calendar reminder to set priorities. She writes a list of tasks to complete by the end of the week, and throughout the week, she ...

Patients with the smallest lung tumors are usually offered surgery but not chemotherapy, even though 30 percent of these early stage tumors recur after surgery. Doctors have not had a way to know ...